Research Project

Emerging contaminants are synthetic or naturally occurring chemicals or any microorganisms that are not commonly monitored in the environment but have the potential to enter the environment and cause known or suspected adverse ecological and/or human health effects.+ Read More

Alcohol distillery industries continued to be an environmental challenge especially to surface water. In this regard, the scientific advances to treat stillage are slow and are less integrated with advances in agricultural waste valorization studies. + Read More

A group lead by Dr. Adey Feleke focuses on microbial ecology of biological wastewater treatment systems and resource recovery from wastewater, with a particular focus on the fate of bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes during the process of recovering Phosphorus and Nitrogen from domestic wastewater. + Read More

It is known that the Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes are supporting the majority of the capture fisheries in Ethiopia. However, most of the lakes are either overexploited or at the verge of collapse. The potential of the capture fisheries in these lakes is in no way capable of supporting the fish demand locally and on a national basis.+ Read More

Geogenic Contamination is a Concern in Eastern Africa. Although it has been recognized for several decades that drinking water in many regions can be contaminated with arsenic and fluoride, the provision of contaminant-free drinking water has proven to be a great challenge for poor urban and rural communities..+ Read More

The Africa Centre of Excellence for Water Management in Collaboration with The Arctic University of Norway, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, and Malawi University of Science and Technology won a new capacity building project. The project titled “The Urban-Suburban Nexus towards One Health approach” is a six-year project which will be implemented during 2021-2026. + Read More

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of chronic, disabling, and disfiguring conditions that occur most commonly in the setting of extreme poverty, especially among the rural poor and some disadvantaged urban populations.+ Read More